Got ghost?: He's not happy about that and neither are his friends, which comprise a group of hilarious hantu ("g...

THEATRE director and playwright Jonathan Lim had so much fun creating H Is For Hantu that he's already thinking of a sequel for next year. But before that, they are bringing back the original show after, as the artistic director of Stages quipped, "we got sabotaged by hantu H1N1". The musical pantomime about a young boy who lives in Singapore's last remaining kampong, which is slated for redevelopment. He's not happy about that and neither are his friends, which comprise a group of hilarious hantu ("ghost" in Malay). The show created by Lim and collaborator Bang Wenfu, and enriched by puppet creations by Frankie Malachi, was staged in 2009 at the height of the H1N1 outbreak, and sales suffered. "We want to see it reach out as it should. Let's not waste it. The cast had a wonderful time doing it and I have plans to write a sequel continuing the adventures of the boy and the...